You can certainly use AI to help you create content - and used well, it can save a huge amount of time. But creating content and designing training are not the same thing.

AI can give you module ideas, write explanations, suggest exercises, create quizzes and produce pages of course material in seconds.

The question is whether what it has produced is actually the right training.

Does it start at the right level?

Are the learning outcomes appropriate?

Is the content in the right order?

What needs to be taught and what needs to be practised?

Is there too much content, or is something important missing?

Do the exercises actually develop the skills being taught?

How will you establish whether someone can apply what they have learned?

If you issue a certificate, what does that certificate actually demonstrate?

And if you later want external accreditation, has the training been designed in a way that gives you the foundations you will need?

AI can help enormously with the production of a training course.

But someone still needs to make the decisions about how that training should be designed.

That’s where curriculum expertise matters.

I can help you create the structure first - the purpose, learning outcomes, learning journey, modules, practical elements, assessment and delivery approach.

Once that framework is right, AI can actually become far more useful because you know exactly what you need it to help you create.

Use AI to help build your training. Don’t ask it to make the important training decisions for you.

You don’t need to have your training externally accredited.

But if there is a possibility that you may want accreditation or recognition from a professional body in the future, it is worth thinking about it before you finish developing the training.

External bodies may want to see much more than good course content.

They may look at areas such as learning outcomes, training hours, assessment, practical competence, trainer requirements, quality assurance and evidence that learners have achieved what your certificate says they have achieved.

Building these considerations into your training from the outset can save a considerable amount of redevelopment later.

We’ll identify any areas you need to consider as part of your Training Course Blueprint.

A detailed review against the requirements of a specific accrediting organisation is a separate service.

If you’ve already started creating your training, I’ll review the core materials needed to understand the programme, its current structure and where you’re stuck.

This isn’t a detailed audit or edit of every page, slide or video you’ve created. We’ll agree beforehand which materials will be most useful for me to review.

If you have a particularly large or complex programme that requires a more detailed review, I’ll let you know before you book and we can discuss what would be appropriate.

There will be no unexpected additional charge once we have agreed the scope.

You’ll receive your Training Course Development Questionnaire and details of how to send me any agreed existing materials.

Once I have those, I’ll review everything before our session.

We’ll then spend two hours working on your training course together.

Following the session, I’ll complete your Training Course Blueprint and send it to you with your agreed priorities and next steps.

Then you can get on with building your training.

You may decide you have everything you need to go away and build the training yourself.

That’s absolutely fine.

If you would like further help, I can also support you with developing individual modules, exercises, assessments, trainer materials and learner resources, or help you prepare the programme for external accreditation.

Any additional work is discussed and agreed separately.

There’s no requirement to take any further service.

Once you have completed your questionnaire you will be offered a call from 5 days later and then your blueprint will be with you 48 hours later.

Possibly - particularly if you already have experience designing training.

But creating a professional training course involves much more than organising your knowledge into a logical series of topics.

You need to consider where your learners are starting from, what they need to know or be able to do by the end, the order in which learning should happen, where practical experience is needed and how you’ll know whether someone has actually learned or can demonstrate what you’re teaching.

Depending on what you're creating, there may also be questions around assessment, certification, trainer materials, quality assurance, accreditation and whether the course could eventually be delivered by someone other than you.

And some of those may be things you haven't even realised you need to consider yet.

That's where my experience comes in.

I'll help you look beyond the content you already have and identify what your training actually needs, so you can build it on the right foundations rather than discovering later that important elements have been missed.